To me it makes no sense to have a cyclic individual preference. I at least can take comfort in knowing that Condorcet considered it non-rational (because he considered the fact that collective preferences can have this quality to be a paradox)
>From a pragmatic point of view, I think it is just a horrible idea to have a way of inputting such cycle preferences. 99.999% of the people would just be confused by why in the world would anyone want to do such a thing, and I can't imagine an easy to use non-confusing interface. I'd guess that the only possible people who would want it would be voting geeks who just enjoy contriving situations where it might make sense....and that doesn't seem worth the extra effort to convince people to change to such a system. It enough of a challenge trying to get people to do something better than plurality. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
